Angela Jin 12:18 pm on November 16, 2020
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Community Team goals for 2021: share your suggestions!

In January of this year, the global community team posted a request for suggestions for 2020 goals that saw a lot of substantive ideas and suggestions. Of course, this year turned out to be nothing like anyone expected, and COVID-19 forced us to entirely change the way we support the WordPress community. With in person events still on hold, and the brand new Learn WordPress platform being live, it seems timely to start the discussion on 2021 goals.

If you’d like to see past brainstorming posts, we have them from 2020, 2018, 2017, and 2016.

Please consider this an open thread for suggestions about what this team ought to focus on and/or try to accomplish in 2021. As in past years, you are welcome to suggest ideas that have already been suggested in the past, or to propose things that are entirely new!

We will leave this post open for comments until Monday, December 14 to give everyone time to make their suggestions. After that, we will summarize all suggestions (example) and discuss as a group to set our priorities. If you would like to help summarize the suggestions, please reach out to @angelasjin on the Making WP SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.!

What do you think the global community team should or could work on, to help further our mission to connect WordPress enthusiasts, inspire people to do more with WordPress, and contribute to the WordPress open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. project, in 2021?

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Mariano Perez 12:31 pm on November 16, 2020

As a non-English speaking community member, it is important for me to start with the translation of the handbooks. It would be impressive if we managed to translate as many handbooks as possible in 2021.
- Angela Jin 1:28 pm on November 26, 2020
  
  I agree, that would be impressive and super helpful! It would also be a good opportunity to collaborate with the Polyglots teamPolyglots Team Polyglots Team is a group of multilingual translators who work on translating plugins, themes, documentation, and front-facing marketing copy. https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/. 🙂
- Naoko Takano 6:44 am on November 27, 2020
  
  @mpcdigital I’d love to work with you on that! I like how the Spanish team has a summary version of the community (and other) documentation. Only 10 or so teams make use of the Handbook section on their site at the moment, but if work on more clear examples and good practices, others may follow.
  - Mariano Perez 10:33 am on November 27, 2020
    
    Great. Let’s do it! 😀
Francesca Marano 5:12 pm on November 16, 2020
Bringing some desiderata back from the 2020 post because I am persistent 🙂
- Discussion: Best Practices with Community Data – This is still a scary subject IMHO. We have lists and lists of sensitive data that can be accessed by a lot of people. I really think this is an important issue.
- Call for volunteers: Contributor Drives Document – This was such a good initiative and we kind of stopped at discussing the naming. Would be great to see it move forward in 2021 with online events.
- Discussion: How could we improve the WordPress Community Summit? – Well, obviously we can not meet in person, so 2021 sounds like a good time to throw an online Community Summit.
- How can we support Community Team Mentors – Everything has changed, how do we pivot?
- central.wordcamp.org UX evaluation. – Ripe for a change, and with GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ it might be easier than ever!
- CoC Training Project – What happened to it? Now that we are meeting only online, it looks like the community could benefit from a Community Code of Conduct, not one that is aimed at in-person events.
- WordCamp Talks Beta – Talks evaluation through WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. websites, so we can avoid exporting data to spreadsheets saved everywhere.
- Feature Request: Email receipt after submitting WordCamp talk – Pretty please 😉
- Timi Wahalahti 5:29 pm on November 24, 2020
  
  +1 for the whole list.
- Angela Jin 1:17 pm on November 26, 2020
  
  Adding my +1 to all of these as well, in particular the Discussion for Best Practices with Community Data, How to best support Community Team Mentors, and the CoC Training Project.
- Afshana Diya 6:53 am on December 10, 2020
  
  +1 for the full list.
jillbinder 7:40 pm on November 16, 2020
Via the Diverse Speaker Training group (#wpdiversity):
- More diverse speaker lineups
Which as an amazing byproduct, leads to:
- More diverse organizers (and leadership)
- More diverse contributors
- etc.
Specific methods and goals TBD! We would love your input here.
- Angela Jin 1:21 pm on November 26, 2020
  
  +1 for more diverse speaker lineups, organizers, leadership, and contributors.
webcommsat AbhaNonStopNewsUK 5:12 am on November 19, 2020
Thanks for this @angelasjin .
One suggestion would be to take forward our previous idea of having a cross team, informal working group to bring together the different social media improvements and sustainability proposals relating to the social media accounts for central / meetups. This would include, for example,
- the thinking done by WCUS organizers which @francina highlighted previously for a 2020 focus (Proposal: WordCamp CentralWordCamp Central Website for all WordCamp activities globally. https://central.wordcamp.org includes a list of upcoming and past camp with links to each. Twitter Strategy and Tactics) and which we have been reviewing
- the discussions around accounts which were not accessible
- the discussions we had with @sippis and @hlashbrooke previously about sustainability and continuity / scheduling of the content for the official social media accounts
- the need for using some of the aggregators and planning tools, and strategy
- increased working with larger WordCamps and ways to support the information from smaller camps
- making it clearer on the process to deal with potential issues and branding confusion (eg accounts suggesting they are the project)
- increase contributor event content, building on the work done already on this with and through WCEU
It would be crucial any group includes / or is jointly run with the marketing team and learns from the experience of social media tasks and management its members working on this for the project.

We have also continued the efforts to help community recover access and report issues on social accounts, as well as setting up some monitoring of some brand accounts.

The Marketing Team has various promotion campaigns for different teams which have a high social media amplification component.

All of this would help us take this forward at a crucial time. From our monitoring, we are aware of the need to have more support and processes available to help those dealing with social media if posts are taken over by other issues or offensive material. We are also in the process of updatIng the Marcomms support document for WordCamps and Meetups.

We are preparing a post on all this and hope that we can continue our good partnerships With community on working on all of these things together. Thanks Angela.
- Timi Wahalahti 5:30 pm on November 24, 2020
  
  +1 for more coordination with the Marketing team and making our official social media accounts more active!
- Angela Jin 1:23 pm on November 26, 2020
  
  Thanks for all these great thoughts, @webcommsat! I agree more coordination between teams would be fantastic. Looking forward to seeing the post.
Timi Wahalahti 5:51 pm on November 24, 2020
Some of these things might have been proposed earlier by other team members for past years, but here’s my brain dump without any proper sorting. Sorry folks!
- Getting the private deputy channel up and running
- Activating wider audience to write Tuesday training posts
- Sharing some of the Tuesday training posts with the larger WordPress project in some way, as many are really good content for everyone contributing
- Making decisions on camera kit program’s future, should we end it or renew the equipment
- Finding more ways to help meetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. organisers with online events and encouraging them to do so
- Obviously, get more workshops and discussion groups on Learn WordPress
- Revisit the usage of meetup.com
- Getting clarity on who is responsible for updating five for the future page (especially case studies)
- Continuing the great “People of WordPress” series in coordination with Marketing team
- Making the #metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress.-wordcampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. team more visible
- More broadly, making the behind the scenes work more visible and transparent
- Being collaboratively better on following up with proposals and posts, so that good thought are not forgotten
- Find new ways for sponsorships on the virtual era and in virtual events
- Ensuring funding of WPCS
Timi Wahalahti 6:12 pm on November 24, 2020
And more!
- Creating a year clock for Community Team, so we don’t need to rely on team member’s memory on important things and when those need to happen
- Experiment a shared Community Team TODO-list from which it would be easy for team members to pick a task that needs to be done, but there isn’t any assigned person responsible yet
Not things that are really about Community Team, but wider WordPress project:
- Determining if we need the annual survey, how results of it are used and refining the survey in general if it’s decided to continue having it
- Getting clarity who is responsible for the annual survey, now that has been mainly @andreamiddleton‘s responsibility
- Firing up some dedicated communication place for things affecting the whole project: SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel and P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/. (not /updates)
- Getting a conclusion on the general project advisory board
- Angela Jin 1:33 pm on November 26, 2020
  
  +1 to so many of your suggestions, @sippis! Thanks for sharing all these excellent thoughts. I’m particularly a fan of getting more contribution for Tuesday trainings, supporting organizers, and more transparency across the team.
Angela Jin 2:18 pm on November 26, 2020
Loving the great ideas on this post so far, and agree with many of them. Here are additional items on my mind:
- Given all the changes this year, adapt how we level up and support deputies and mentors, especially around online events.
- Ways to acknowledge and appreciate contributors, organizers, volunteers, etc.
- Increasing the visibility and support of working groups – there are excellent initiatives and a lot of great effort there that would benefit from more collaboration and recognition.
- Incident response training
- Increase and diversify contributions to Tuesday Trainings and Learn WordPress
- For Learn WordPress, a stronger connection to MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. groups through discussion groups.
- In the hopes that one day we will have in person events again, improving WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. tools, especially around budget, payments, and reimbursements, so that teams have better understanding of their finances.
Courtney P.K. 10:38 pm on December 1, 2020

I know mentors have been mentioned a few times already, but I wanted to add my +1 to improving mentor support. Perhaps a more robust handbook for mentors, best practices, checklists, etc.

Also, improvements to Deputy support. Deputy mentors, ongoing check-ins, maintaining the active deputy list and increased outreach + onboarding of new deputies.
Christina Workman 12:28 am on December 14, 2020

I really like the idea of Contributor Drives mentioned by @francina. Anything that brings more Contributors in the door is aces in my books.
I would love to see stand-alone Contributor events get more awareness/attention too. I think this time of “everything is online” is actually a great time to have more of them, in lieu of WordCamps.
Angela Jin 3:41 pm on December 14, 2020

Thank you all so much for sharing your suggestions for the Community team’s 2021 goals, there are A LOT of excellent suggestions here to be excited about! In order to gather more information around goals and identify our high impact items for 2021 in a way that is as collaborative as possible, we’re going to try something new.

Over the next few weeks, suggested goals will be put into a new, public Community Team 2021 Goals Trello board as separate cards. In January, we will hold a few sessions in the #community-team channel (if you don’t have an account already, sign-up for an one here: https://make.wordpress.org/chat/), where deputies and anyone interested are invited to chat about specific goals, and add details to goal cards. The TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing. board will be open for a few weeks, so that people can share input outside of those sessions. After that, the deputies will summarize our goals and top priorities for 2021. A post will be made in early January announcing these open sessions.

If any deputies are interested in helping with putting goals in Trello, or facilitating discussions and recapping goals, please pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” me!

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